Fish cakes are usually eaten with mashed potatoes or fried. But it’s so boring, so stolovskim ’! Immediately come to mind kindergarten, school or, God forbid, the army. And what are “advanced” people eating fish cakes with? We will clarify this question now!
Gourmet Puff
A frequent side dish for fish patties is buckwheat. However, if you simply weld it, it will also turn out not too interesting. Let's do it differently. Take a glass of kernel and cook it until crisp. A quarter kilo of mushrooms (champignons will be quite appropriate) are finely crumbled and slightly stewed in vegetable oil. Quarters of onions and coarsely grated large carrots are separately fried. Buckwheat is mixed with half of the mushrooms and laid out in a greased form, frying is distributed over it, the rest of the mushrooms is placed on top. From above, the construction is smeared with vegetable oil, sprinkled with half a glass of crushed nuts and sent to the oven for a quarter of an hour. The best side dish for fish cakes is impossible to imagine!
Steamed vegetables - always!
Vegetables are a great thing when it comes to "fellow travelers" to fish or meat. In a stew, they cook quickly, do not require special attention, and the set may vary depending on your preferences and the availability of assortment in the store. Here are some of the most successful kits that can be used as a side dish for fish cakes:
- Carrots with onions and tomatoes. First, a simple frying is done, only a lot, and then tomatoes are added, and the dish is stewed until cooked
- Ragout of potatoes, zucchini, cauliflower (can be replaced with white, including sauerkraut), cloves of garlic and bell pepper.
- Spicy stewed cabbage. So, how would you cook a bigus, only without sausages or meat, but with the addition of slices of hot pepper like a "spark".
Many, when asked which side dish suits fish cutlets, will tell you: baked vegetables. It is also true if you put assorted in the oven, otherwise (for example, only with eggplant) it may be boring.
Asian recipe
In the East, their ideas about which side dish is suitable for fish patties. For its preparation, peeled ginger finely rubs, combines with a pound of couscous, is poured with salted boiling water and left to swell for about ten minutes. A pleasant surprise for the hostess is the lack of the need to cook cereals. When the right time is up, the contents of the pan are mixed and the spiced couscous is served as a side dish to the fish cakes. You can season it with oil and herbs, can be combined with pickled and salted vegetables.
Salad for cutlets
In Mediterranean countries, they also love fish cakes. With what to serve them, the local chefs came up with their own way. Two tomatoes and bell peppers are taken; the latter are preferable to different colors. Zucchini is selected in a small size; if the vegetable is young - the skin can not be peeled, if it is roughened, it is better to remove it. All vegetables are cut in small proportional slices. Grams of 50 cheese are grated, red onion, basil and a couple of garlic cloves are finely chopped. All components are combined, mixed and put in the cold for an hour. But you need to eat such a side dish for fish cakes when it naturally warms up to room temperature.
Almost a tradition, but first cook, and then fry
Solving the problem with what there are fish cakes, you can regain your respect and potatoes. However, it is worth trying to cook it non-standard. A pound of tubers is cooked unpeeled ("in uniform"). After cooling, the skin is thinly removed from the potato and the tubers are cut in thick circles. Oil is melted in a pan and the plates are fried on both sides until they become golden brown. You can limit yourself to this, or you can drive a couple of eggs into ready-made potatoes and fry them, stirring until the omelet thickens, frying in circles.
It is possible to fry the "uniform" potatoes as a whole. Only you need to choose smaller tubers, and you will have to achieve goldenness longer.
Recall Turnip
The vegetable, unfortunately, is not very popular, but fortunately, it is not difficult to buy it. And if, having prepared fish cakes, you haven’t come up with what to serve them with, surprise the family with an unusual side dish. The character of a children's fairy tale weighing 500 grams is washed, cleaned and rubbed on the largest possible grater. The resulting shavings are placed in a thick-bottomed pan, poured with low-fat sour cream or fat cream (half a glass is enough) and stewed for five minutes. As the process goes, the large onion crumbles; frying is made from it and laid out on top of the finished vegetable, divided into plates. I bet none of your family will guess what kind of side dish you served with fish cakes?
Alternative variations
Some culinary experts believe that rice is not too harmonious in combination with fish. However, even such quibbles agree that seasoned with grated carrots and strips of sweet pepper, he gets along well with fish cakes. Moreover, vegetables can be added fresh, or you can pre-stew them. Such a side dish for fish cakes is laid out in a ringlet, the main course is “hidden” inside, and everything is sprinkled with rings of olives.
Gourmets can make an unusual side dish for us: fry greens. Celery and parsley are best suited for these purposes. Sprigs are cut and allowed in a large amount of oil.
Green Beans with Almonds
It will turn out to be very appetizing and fragrant, although not too cheap a side dish for fish cakes. Beans are best taken fresh, but in the absence of suitable frozen. It is cut, laid in salted water and quickly - no longer than five minutes - cooked and reclined as soon as it became soft, but did not have time to become sour. A spoonful of butter is melted in a frying pan, a spoonful of olive oil is added to it, and a grated clove of garlic is thrown. After a minute, when the flavor goes, chopped or crushed almonds are poured. Three hundred grams of beans should take half a glass of nuts. Depending on your tastes, the amount can be changed in any direction. With vigorous stirring, this unusual frying is processed for a couple of minutes, after which the beans are placed in it. After another two minutes, a side dish will be ready for fish cakes, a photo of which can decorate any culinary magazine. As seasonings, you can take any spices and herbs that do not conflict with fish.
If you are not completely satisfied with the recipes we have proposed, try adding them with sauces and ketchups of your own making. Nevertheless, fish cakes do not have a very bright taste, so such "decorations" will be very appropriate. And in the most extreme case - come up with something of your own, super unique, hyperexclusive and extremely tasty. Good luck in the experiments!